The New York Times Magazine December 12, 1976 cover featuring a family of Afrikaners relaxing on a tree. The headline reads 'In Defense of Africa's White Tribe' with a subheading about the response to OPEC. This iconic cover highlights the cultural themes and social issues of the time.
Cover page of The New York Times Magazine December 12, 1976 featuring an Afrikaner family in Pretoria. This issue highlights the loneliness of Afrikaners in South Africa and includes notable articles such as tracking down an epidemic and the case for Africa's white tribe.
Close-up of a damaged corner of The New York Times Magazine December 12, 1976, showcasing wear and tear on the cover. The magazine includes discussions on language and features contributors like Ben Katchor.
Back cover of The New York Times Magazine December 12, 1976 advertising the Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. This issue is part of a direct mail offering with a price tag of $17.50.
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The New York Times Magazine December 12, 1976 cover featuring a family of Afrikaners relaxing on a tree. The headline reads 'In Defense of Africa's White Tribe' with a subheading about the response to OPEC. This iconic cover highlights the cultural themes and social issues of the time.Cover page of The New York Times Magazine December 12, 1976 featuring an Afrikaner family in Pretoria. This issue highlights the loneliness of Afrikaners in South Africa and includes notable articles such as tracking down an epidemic and the case for Africa's white tribe.Close-up of a damaged corner of The New York Times Magazine December 12, 1976, showcasing wear and tear on the cover. The magazine includes discussions on language and features contributors like Ben Katchor.Back cover of The New York Times Magazine December 12, 1976 advertising the Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. This issue is part of a direct mail offering with a price tag of $17.50.

The New York Times Magazine December 12, 1976 Africa White Tribe OPEC Cover

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Cover
An Afrikaner family — lawyer Martin Brink, his wife, Janet, and their children — on a Sunday afternoon in the garden of their home in Pretoria. The 2.5 million Afrikaners who control South Africa (with its population of 25 million) feel themselves the loneliest people in the world. Page 34.
Photograph by David Goldblatt

Russell Baker
6 Sunday Observer
The phantom rich

16 Letters
On smaller cities, better morals, safer ovens and abler cooks.

Gwyneth Cravens
and John S. Marr
32 Tracking down the epidemic
Did the legionnaires die of a toxin? A fungus? A virus? Or, as puzzled epidemiologists could not permit themselves to consider, did it “just happen”?

P. J. Cillie
34 The case for Africa’s white tribe
The Afrikaners, says one of them, believe they are in Africa for a high purpose transcending their own survival.

Wallace Markfield
36 The Kong and I
Obsessed for 40 years with the original “King Kong,” the author traces the source of the film’s power to the artful artlessness of its makers.

Christopher D. Stone
and Jack McNamara
38 How to take on OPEC
The American response to the oil cartel has so far amounted to empty talk and evasive action. There are ways to fight back.

Donald Kirk
60 Crime, politics and finger chopping
Japan’s ritualistic underworld finds status and profit in an alliance with the far right.

William Barry Furlong
63 Secrets of a turnaround coach
The biggest secret is how Lou Holtz is going to make a football team out of the New York Jets.

Craig Claiborne
with Pierre Franey
104 Food
Crowd pleasers

110 Fashion
Holiday reds

118 Design
Holiday tables

122 Puzzles
Last week’s answers, Page 120

Louise Armstrong
131 Endpaper
The form

Picture credits, Page 96

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